News INTERNATIONAL UPDATE New French operating laws
The French government changes the operating laws concerning slot machine to benefit operators
A new law allowing French casinos to extend opening hours for slot machines even when table sections have been closed has been signed in by Manuel Valls and Jérôme Cahuzac, Ministers of the Interior and the Budget.
The new law, which came into action on February 22, rules that table games must be manned and open for at least six hours if a venue has more than 75 slots and for four hours a day if there are 75 slots or less in operation. Operators have welcomed the move claiming that tables have become labour intensive and costly to operate. Field trials testing the new operating hours for slots and table games have already been carried out at 11 casinos.
In 2012 GGR fell by a further 1.8 per cent prompting industry executives to campaign for the Prime Minister to introduce a raft changes, including the more profitable operating hours an easier approval process for new games and the option for more. There has been no mention so far of any change to the game approval process.
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EL GALA CASINO DE DUNDEE (ESCOCIA) cerrará sus puertas el próximo mes, y en estos momentos la empresa se encuentra en plenas negociaciones con la plantilla después de que los directores comu- nicaran la noticia de la venta del establec- imiento. La administración municipal de Dundee ha accedido a pagar 8,5 millones de libras para comprar los terrenos del Gala Casino y el Hotel Hilton como parte de su proyecto de regeneración del puerto. Aún se desconoce cuántos empleados se verán afectados por el cierre y cuáles son los planes de Gala para la licencia.
In 2012 GGR fell in
France by a further 1.8 per cent
prompting industry executives to
campaign for the Prime Minister to introduce a raft changes
The proposed changes have been awaiting approval since August 2012, but with little movement the Presidents of the Association Casinos de France, the Union of Modern Casinos and the Independent Association of French Casinos joined forces to campaign for them to be introduced. They warned that the sector’s 15,500 jobs are now under threat having seen turnover fall by 20 per cent in five years. Revenue from the country’s 23,000 slot machines dropped 2.5 per cent to €2,054m, whilst revenue from table games actually increased by 5.25 per cent to €221m.
Odyssey connected by Intralot’s iGEM system
Odyssey Gaming Lounge, a new gaming hall opened in Jamaica by Supreme Ventures Limited has installed the SVL lottery terminal, as well as wager on international sporting events through the sports betting brand, JustBet, all connected by Intralot’s iGEM central monitoring system.
The iGEM system is a next generation integrated solution for large-scale gaming networks. The VLTs that are installed in the SVL gaming lounges are connected and monitored by. The full suite of the system has a number of modules enabling the provision of services like wide area jackpots, real time floor management and simultaneous multiprotocol support of both legacy and G2S slot machines, providing operators the ability to efficiently manage their
operations and the opportunity to deploy the latest VLT technology.
Brian George, President and CEO of SVL, said: “Our partnership with Intralot and their Electronic Monitoring System - iGEM, has afforded us the opportunity to meet the needs of a discerning clientele. Some of the gaming machines installed in Odyssey are the first of their kind in Jamaica and the Caribbean. This has been a major investment for us and we are now poised to open our doors with the best customer service offering to our gamers.”
The new gaming lounge is the first of its kind in Jamaica to introduce gaming; ticket in/ticket out for game play; a high definition digital experience and a facility that will bring ease of gaming for all its customers.
LOS ÚLTIMOS INFORMES provenientes de Taiwán sugieren que en Matsu, una de las cadenas de islas alejadas, podría haber un complejo de casino plenamente operativo hacia finales del año 2017 y que el Ministerio podría estar intentando selec- cionar inversores cualificados hasta finales de 2014. El viceministro administrativo de Transporte y Comunicaciones, Chen Chien- yu, admitió que Taiwán carece de experien- cia en la apertura de casinos, e indicó que el Gobierno recurrirá a inversores interna- cionales para que supervisen el proyecto. Varios operadores que cumplen los requisi- tos legales han mostrado interés por el proyecto, incluida la promotora de comple- jos recreativos Weidner Resorts Taiwan, Las Vegas Sands y MGM Resorts.
SBE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, CON sede en Los Ángeles, ha puesto en marcha una remodelación por valor de 415 mil- lones de dólares del antiguo Hotel Sahara, en el extremo norte de la franja de Las Vegas, que dará lugar a SLS Las Vegas Hotel & Casino. Su objetivo es abrir en otoño de 2014 con más de 1600 habita- ciones, un casino, cuatro clubes nocturnos y una filial de más de 900 metros cuadra- dos de Fred Segal, la famosa tienda de ropa de Los Ángeles.
LOS MINISTROS DE INTERIOR Y Finanzas de Francia, respectivamente Manuel Valls y Jérôme Cahuzac, han firmado una nueva ley que permite a los casinos franceses ampliar su horario de apertura para máquinas tragaperras aunque las zonas de las mesas ya hayan cerrado. La nueva ley, que entrará en vigor el 22 febrero, establece que los juegos de mesa deben estar atendidos por personal y abiertos durante al menos seis horas diarias si en el establecimiento hay más de 75 tragaperras y durante cuatro horas si hay 75 tragaper- ras o menos funcionando.
GAMING LABORATORIES International (GLI), laboratorio de pruebas y asesoría téc- nica, ha publicado una actualización clave de su estándar técnico GLI-19 para sis- temas de juegos interactivos, el primer con- junto de normas comunes para la regu- lación técnica de los mercados del iGaming. La nueva versión 2.0 del GLI-19 engloba las prácticas recomendadas en jurisdicciones reguladas de Estados Unidos, Canadá y países de toda Europa.
REVEL, EL ESTABLECIMIENTO DE Atlantic City en el que Nueva Jersey cifraba sus esperanzas, se acogerá a protección por bancarrota con arreglo al Capítulo 11 en marzo, menos de un año después de su inauguración. El acuerdo liquidará aprox. dos terceras partes de la deuda de Revel, que asciende a 1500 millones de dólares, convirtiendo más de 1000 millones de dólares en acciones para los prestamistas.
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